President Trump ONCE AGAIN Confirms We Are TAKING BACK the Panama Canal

President Trump just confirmed, once again and very clearly, that we are TAKING BACK the Panama Canal.

Not a negotiation chip….

Not a bluff to get a few more concessions….

He says we’re taking it back!

He says Panama has already offered several concessions but he doesn’t want concessions.  He wants the Canal back.

Panama is about to learn the hard way….

Everyone keeps saying President Trump is just bluffing with all of these policy statements, but they’re learning one-by-one none of them are a bluff.

“Tariffs are just a bluff to get concessions” — 25% tariffs now already in place.

“Trump will not clean out the DOJ” — many now fired, the biggest overhaul of the DOJ anyone has already seen and it hasn’t even been a full month yet.

And now the Panama Canal.

Folks, this man is not bluffing and he’s not playing around.

Watch here:

🚨President Trump ONCE AGAIN confirms we are TAKING BACK the Panama Canal:

“We're gonna take it back… they've totally violated the agreement."
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 31, 2025

Here’s more, from the AP:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland and retake control of the Panama Canal is driven by legitimate national security interests stemming from growing concerns about Chinese activity and influence in the Arctic and in Latin America.

Ahead of a trip to Central America that will start in Panama this weekend, Rubio said Thursday that he could not predict if Trump would succeed in buying Greenland from Denmark or restoring American authority over the Panama Canal while he is office. But he said the attention that Trump will give to both would have an impact.

“What I think you can rest assured of is that four years from now, our interest in the Arctic will be more secure; our interest in the Panama Canal will be more secure,” Rubio said in an interview with SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly.

Rubio will arrive in Panama on Saturday on his first official foreign trip as America’s top diplomat, signaling the importance that both he and Trump place on securing the canal. Although immigration will be a major topic of conversation in Panama and at his other stops, Rubio said the canal issue is a priority.

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Chinese investments in ports and other infrastructure and facilities at both the Pacific and Caribbean ends of the canal are a cause for major concern, leaving Panama and the critical shipping route vulnerable to China, he said.

“They’re all over Panama,” Rubio said of Chinese companies that many experts believe are beholden to the government in Beijing and would carry out orders to cut off or limit traffic to the canal in the event of a conflict with Taiwan or an unrelated breakdown in relations with the U.S.

“If the government in China in a conflict tells them to shut down the Panama Canal, they will have to,” he said. “I have zero doubt that they have contingency planning to do so that is a direct threat.”

Heck, even Meghan McCain says President Trump is right about the Panama Canal, can you believe that?

Meghan McCain Says “Trump Is Right” About Proposal That’s “Very Personal”

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